Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAzErr
WASu1NGTnN ID C. June 90 1857.

county officers ana Tor delegates W tho
State democratic convention, are IN progress
there to-day. He says that the delegates
will he in favor Of Mr.. Roberts for the guoer-
material nomination, and that prooapiy
meiority of the convention Will Do ior hiln.
For the animation for States attorney lor
the county the two most prominent candl-
5otes ore +. G.. Peter and Alexander Kill
oour. the latter we'll known in Alexandra,
and q near relative of Col. VIM. kilgour,
formerly of that city.
Even those most anxious Tor an extra
session of Congress on their own private
account. now seem to have abandoned tho
idea that there will be one; and the reports
that Mr.. Speaker Carlisle is in favor OF one
are altogether incorrect.
The ladle of the silver punch bowl pre-
sented to exTreasurer Jordan by his late
subordnates has twenty.dolar gold piece
inserted in its bottom.
All the congressman now here, senators
as well as representatives, seem TO tnlnK
that Secretary Lamar is sure to be appoint
cd 10 the vacant seat on the supreme bench.
They say that even the people who 60 to
the White House to recommend anybody
else, always premise their remarks by saying
provided Mr.. Lamar be not appointed.
Some of them also say, however, that the
Presidents words and acts will not be con-
sistent if he shall appoint him, as he mas
heretofore snid he wanted man for the
place young enough to serve many years
before retiring on full pay; while it is well
known that Mr.. Lamar's life hangs by
thread, az e'has had one stroke of paraly-
sis and is therefore liable to another at any
time, and hesides, as even should his life be
prolonged, his we'll known dreamy condition
and Incidence incapactate him for any
really active work. Who Mr.. Lamar5 sue
essor as Secretary Of the Interior will be Is
not vet known, hut among those spoken OF
is A. B. Upshaw, now of that department.
Mr.. Mac Coyt, one of the editors OF the
Catholic Mirror, of Baltimore, has received
a letter from Mr. Gladstone, acknowledging
the receipt of an invitation to visit this
country, but saying that he is prevented
from accepting it by age and its incident n-
lirmities and that hereafter the Atlantic
will be to him an uncrossed ocean.
The prevailing spell of hot weather has
inspired the President with desire TO seek
again the cool hreezes and pleasant shadows
of the wildwood, and it is said to-day he
will CRAFTY that desire, but will do so by
trip to West Virginia, where the mountain
trout has hut TO see fly to jump at it, and
where there are no mosquitoes TO make the
application of ointment necessary. The
trip, it ia said, will be made ut AN early day,
and will strengthen him for the extended
one to the West he proposes to take in the
early fall.
The most exciting topic OF conversation
among the working people here, and espec-
tally the printers, yesterday and to-day,
was the action of the Typographical Union
Saturday night last In renudatlng the
| Craftsman, labor paper, and the organ oil
the international Union. The printers are
all politicians, and as such they congregate
on SUNDAYS in the Hobbies of the hotels,
where they discuss, in groups, matters of IT,
terest to them. II was in the lobby OF tho
Metropolitan Hotel where the whole pro-
ceedings of tho meeting OF the printers
| union Saturday night was rehearsed, ana
from which the following was gathered
| The Craftsman, the organ OF tho lnterna'
| tional Union, has for some time past been
assaiing the administration of the Govern
ment Printing Office by Public Printer
| Benedict, charging that he was not prac-
tical printer and ought not 10 have been
confirmed, and that since his confirmation
he has discharged thoroughly compe-
| tent men, who, of course, were good
| republicans and appointed in their
places men who are III the depths OF gnor-
ance and incompetency," and that the men
remaining in the office knew that the
charges were true, and would say so il they
dared to speak their sentiments. So, at the
meeting of the union Saturday night, res
| olution condemning in the severest terms
| the course of the Craftsman in deiaming
good union printers for political purposes,
as alleged, was adopted. And, to make the
matter moro severe. the resolutions were
ordered to be printed in circular form anu
sent to all the unions throughout the coun-
| try and to be published in the city news
papers And to meet and refuie the asser-
| ton that the men dared not speak their sen.
timents Public Printer Benedict was elected
an honorary member of the union, and
vote of thanks rendered him for the many
reforms inaugurated in the Government
printing office by him. all favorable to the
men there employed, especially in securing
for them the semi monthly payments OF
| wages. One of the editors and proprietors
of the repudiated Craftsman is Mr. Geo. w.
Ramsay, who is we'll known in Alexandria
as the organizer Of the union there, (which,
about a year and a-half ago, attempted
to place a boycott on all who did not see lit
| to obey their unreasonable behests and COM
ply with their extravagant demands) for the
| purpose, as some of the members of that
union now say. of having himself elected q
delegate to the international Union, which
purpose he succeeded in, and also secured,
as a delegate on the floor of that body, the
passage of a.resolution compelling all subor.
dinate unions in the country to subscribe
for his paper for each of their members, the
subscription price to be paid out of the
treasures of the different bodies, which res.
olution was rescinded at the last meeting of
the international Union, held ia Buffalo,
n. Y.
From North Carolina it is learned to-day
that Senator Ransom will certainly be
candidate for reelection when his term shall
expire in 1887, aud that ex-representatlve
William Rufin Cox, the great civil service
reformer of his State. is by no means as
staunch Cleveland man as ne was when in
Congress. 1t will be recollected that his
civil service ideas made him lose his re-